THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 August 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

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London, August 10

Sir John French reports:—.Northwestward of Hooge and in the ruins of the village wo consolidated our gains from the Germans on Monday. A weak infantry attack was repulsed duriug the night, but a violent artillery engagement on Monday afternoon made all the trenches in the upon ground southward of Hooge untenable on either side. We have now slightly withdrawn the position of our mio which lay southward of the village. This makes no material difference in our position. The total number of prisoners wo captured o* M'onuay was IoU

AKTILL'-niY AOTNSSS ONLI. L'avis, August 11. ■Official.—There were artillery actions only in Artok and on the Aisne and in tlio Argoniie.

I - 'THE EAST"--.-, Petrograd, Augu .11. Official—Details of the- assault on Kovno on the Bth state that the enemy about midnight opened a bombardment from the village of Pape. Guns of all calibre up to 16 inches were used, and the hurricane of lire lasted two hours. Our batteries vigorously replied. About three in the morning ai assaulting column in close formation, marched against our position but by concentrated tire, tho explosion of mines, and gallant counterattacks the enemy were thrown jack along the whole front within an hour, suffering enormous losses. Tho exhausted Germans were thrown into a neighbouring ravine where they prepared fresh assaults.

At noon on the Sth the enemy's lire increased to terrific intensity, but a

protracted destructive hurricane of lire from powerful guns failed to shake our troops. Our artillery valiantly supported the. infantry, and an incessant cannonade lasted all day. An nightfall the enemy columns massing rushed to the assault, the attacks lasting two hours. They succeeded in taking part of the trenches of our advanced position, but later our reserves swept forward and repulsed the Germans with enormous losses, the enemy only retaining works near Piple.

Official—On the roads from liiga we repulsed on the alights oi the Sth and Uth by hand-to-hand fighting several German attacks supported by a powerful force with heavy artillery. That night and on the following clay in the direction of Dvinsk and the district of Schoenburg-WTlkomierz the enemy fell back, leaving 100 prisoners, several machine guus and munition chests. • There was desperate fighting on the iXarev frout. Our artillery repulsed an offensive against -Novbgeorgiovsk, and on the roads from \ oldara we repulsed attacks made under cover of asphyxiating gases. Berlin, August 10.

Official.—General von Scholtz stormed and captured Lomza -fortress, ana after severe fighting southward of Lomza we crossed the Ostrov. The town of Ostrov is still in the enemy's hands. .From westward of Brok, to twelve kilometres southward of Ostrov we have reached the JJug. Since the 7th 23 officers and 10,000 men have been captured in that region. Prince Leopold of Bavaria is Hearing the road. General von Woyrsch, pursuing the enemy, reached the district northward of Zeiehov, and is now closely in touch -with General von Mackensen's (advancing armies. The enemy's rearguard on the Ostrov-Bug front have been thrown back to the main forces. AT THE DARDANELLES.

London, August 11. Karachali where the Allies have effected a leading is on the north (shore of the Gulf of Saras, five miles westward of Khojachesem, on the main route of the Turkish suplies Gallipoliivards, since the British submarines stopped the traffic in the Sea of Marmora. Sir lan Hamilton now threatens to cut the only lauding highway.